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Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sandeep D. Kulkarni, Kingwood, TX (US);

Cato R. McDaniel, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/08 (2006.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 21/06 (2006.01); E21B 21/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/08 (2013.01); E21B 21/065 (2013.01); E21B 21/08 (2013.01); E21B 49/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A well system including a drill string having an inlet and extending from a surface location into a wellbore and defining an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore; a fluid circuit that circulates a treatment fluid, the fluid circuit extending from the inlet, through the drill string to a bottom of the wellbore, back to the surface location within the annulus, and back to the inlet; and one or more ultrasound devices arranged at-line, off-line, or in-line with fluid circuit to monitor the treatment fluid and track a real-time particle size distribution (PSD) of one or more particles suspended within the treatment fluid.


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